A number of books on
psychiatry are available on the Internet
for health professionals and the general public.
In this section we highlight a selection that can be downloaded FREE.

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The
Cerebral Code
- Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mindby
William H. Calvin - MIT Press
This book proposes a new theory for how Darwins evolutionary
process could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time
scale of thought and action. Calvin suggests that the cerebral
code representing an object or idea is the cortical-level
equivalent of a gene or meme. Transposed to a hundred-key piano,
this pattern would be a melody  a characteristic tune for
each word of your vocabulary and each face you remember.
Can be freely downloaded as html chapter by chapter. Also
available as a soft cover hardcopy.

The
Word Brain -
A Short Guide to Fast Language Learningby
Bernd Sebastian KampsISBN
978-3-924774-67-7 76 pages (download 2 Mo)
This free book explains how it is possible for anyone to learn
quickly a foreign language without formal teaching using modern
communication techniques. It is not yet another miracle "easy
overnight language method" but the experience of someone who has
learnt 7 foreign languages during his life. He explains how
language learning can be a fast (but not necessarily easy)
exercice for anyone who is sufficiently motivated.

Reviewing Clinical
Trials: A Guide for the Ethics CommitteeEditors:
Johan PE Karlberg and Marjorie A SpeersAlthough this book is entitled Reviewing Clinical Trials: A
Guide for the Ethics Committee, it has been developed to be
relevant and useful to all professionals entering the clinical
trial research area. The book can be downloaded free of charge as
a pdf file from the Clinical
Trial Magnifier
website (right hand panel) (a free clinical newsletter - see
Free
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Newsletters)
A printed version will soon be available for purchase on
line.

Guide
to Receptors and Channels(see
book
reviews for more
details)by SPH
Alexander, A Mathie, JA PetersGuide to Receptors and Channels is distributed by the British
Journal of Pharmacology free of charge on their website. This
authoritative and user-friendly publication provides a rapid
overview of the key properties of a wide range of established or
potential pharmacological targets.

Free
Medical Information: Doctor = Publisher(see
book
reviews for more
details)by
Bernd Sebastian KampsFree
Medical Information describes how to produce a successful medical
text as a free on-line book: from defining the project, selecting
the co-authors and fixing the deadlines to building the website,
printing, marketing, distributing, and negotiating with the
sponsors.

Neuroscience
of Psychoactive Substance Use and
DependenceWorld
Health Organisation publication - 2004
The World Health Report 2002 indicated that 8.9% of the total
burden of disease comes from the use of psychoactive substances
with tobacco accounting for 4.1%, alcohol 4%, and illicit drugs
0.8% of the burden of disease in 2000.
This neuroscience report is the first attempt by WHO to provide a
comprehensive overview of the biological factors related to
substance use and dependence. The report highlights the current
state of knowledge of the mechanisms of action of different types
of psychoactive substances, and explains how the use of these
substances can lead to the development of dependence
syndrome.

Advances
in Brain ImagingEdited
by John M. Morihisa M.D.
Brain imaging and its application to major psychiatric disorders
such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and
schizophrenia is one of the most exciting fields in psychiatry
today.

Culture
and Psychotherapy - A Guide to Clinical
PracticeEdited by Wen-Shing Tseng, M.D., and Jon Streltzer,
M.D.
This book presents the practical aspects of incorporating culture
into therapy, in a way that is immediately useful and helpful.
Illustrated by numerous case studies that demonstrate issues,
techniques, and recommendations, the topics in this wide-ranging
volume focus not on specific race or ethnicity but instead on
culture.

Integrated
Treatment of Psychiatric Disordersby
Jerald Kay, M.DIntegrated treatment is the simultaneous use of psychotherapy
and pharmacotherapy to treat patients with mental disorders. This
book includes an overview of the scientific literature supporting
integrated treatment, theoretical support for the combined use of
psychotherapy and medication, techniques for providing integrative
treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder, for
patients with substance abuse disorder...

PTSD
in Children and Adolescentsby
Spencer Eth, M.D.This book concentrates on five major topic areas in child and
adolescent PTSD:
- Techniques for comprehensive evaluation
- Forensic aspects of traumatized children
- Juvenile offenders and incarcerated youth
- Biological treatment strategies
- The relationship between exposure to trauma in childhood and the
development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood

Somatoform
and Factitious Disordersby
Katharine A. Phillips, M.D.This book offers a broad synthesis of the current
knowledgeand controversiesabout somatoform and
factitious disorders. It presents a series of clinically focused
overviews of these intriguing and often difficult-to-treat
disorders.

Treatment
of Recurrent Depressionby John F.
Greden, M.D.Among other topics this book emphasises: the impact of
gender on recurrent MDD in women, emphasizing the clinical
features, treatment, and prevention; Treatment strategies for
chronic and recurrent depression to help prevent acute episodes
from developing into long-term depression; Prevention of
recurrences in bipolar patients; Potential applications of new
somatic treatment strategies involving minimally invasive brain
stimulation with exciting data suggesting the efficacy of vagal
nerve stimulation (VNS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS).